Bathia_Mapes:Confabulat: I'm starting to listen to old King books on audio during my bike ride to work, starting with The Shining. I havent read his early books since I was a kid so I think it should be fun to pick up a lot of the connections that didn't exist when I read them the first time.

If that chart included Dark Tower stuff it would have been about 19 times more complex.

Here's a list, likely not complete, but it will give you an idea of which non-Dark Tower books have connections to the Dark Tower series. Stephen King works related to The Dark Tower series

The list has both major and minor connections.

Huh. Look at that, that link led me to an actual photograph of Randall Flagg. I never knew that before.

Dreamcatcher was horrible, but Battlefield Earth wins (loses?) by a country mile.

Battlefield earth was a crime against all sentient beings.

I'm starting to think I should watch Battlefield Earth just to experience how bad it is. But from what I understand it's less of a "this is so bad that it's funny" movie and more of a "this is so bad I think it gave me cancer" type of thing.

Dreamcatcher was horrible, but Battlefield Earth wins (loses?) by a country mile.

Battlefield earth was a crime against all sentient beings.

I'm starting to think I should watch Battlefield Earth just to experience how bad it is. But from what I understand it's less of a "this is so bad that it's funny" movie and more of a "this is so bad I think it gave me cancer" type of thing.

It's the cancer type of thing. I saw it in the theater knowing full well that it was going to be a horrible piece of shiat but I was unprepared. I didn't just want my money back. I wanted two hours of my life back. I'd been insulted in ways I didn't know existed. I kept thinking it couldn't possibly get more absurd...but it did! I know I should have walked out but I couldn't take my eyes off the carnage. My legs wouldn't respond. I'm pretty sure this is how people get sucked into Scientology.

the cake is a pie:What needs revised in the last three? That was pretty much why he redid The Gunslinger, to make it fit better with the rest of the set that he didn't foresee writing at the time.

my guess is that it would lessen the degree of meta-ness of the last 3 books.Upon rereading the series recently, I felt the last 3 books were obviously written much later than the first 4 books, nor did the first 4 books really indicate that it was going in the direction of the last 3 books.

Though I guess that would make them rewritten rather than revised. I still don't see any kind of revision happening for the last 3 books.

miss diminutive:I'm starting to think I should watch Battlefield Earth just to experience how bad it is. But from what I understand it's less of a "this is so bad that it's funny" movie and more of a "this is so bad I think it gave me cancer" type of thing.

jtown:It's the cancer type of thing. I saw it in the theater knowing full well that it was going to be a horrible piece of shiat but I was unprepared. I didn't just want my money back. I wanted two hours of my life back. I'd been insulted in ways I didn't know existed.

Let's not forget one vital thing: The film can be redeemed with Rifftrax!